[mythtv-users] mythvideo can't use ttvdb.py for absolue-numbered tv shows

Robert Houghton robbadler at gmail.com
Tue Jan 12 01:28:11 UTC 2010


On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Robert McNamara
<robert.mcnamara at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Robert Houghton <robbadler at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Ick. I was hoping to avoid that if someone had modified the regex/input
> > fields to accept something like <show>_a123.avi , like it does for
> > <show>_S01E01.avi and do the appropriate lookup.
>
> ttvdb.py doesn't do any filename parsing, all that logic is in
> MythVideo, which only supports season/episode data.  To implement it I
> would have to add database values for absolute numbering, add a new
> command line option to supported scripts (which means breaking the
> grabber spec) and write logic into MythVideo to try to guess which the
> user was attempting to express, all of which is a lot of twisty code
> for very, very minimal gain (versus simply requiring that the user use
> the supported season/episode combinations).
>
> Robert
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I saw something on XMBC for this where if season number was set to zero, ie
bleach_S00E145 then the grabber would then look at absolute numbering.
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